It’s rather fitting that even when it comes to selling the “sniper’s perch” where Lee Harvey Oswald fired his rifle at President Kennedy, there is confusion over who owns the real perch. Parris Mayhew says he possesses the actual window, removed by his father in 1971 when he owned the Texas Schoolbook Depository. Caruth Byrd, however, insists he has the real window, removed by his father a few years earlier when he owned the building. Byrd is suing Mayhew and both are selling their respective windows on eBay. Sure it would be interesting to own a piece of history–assuming you believe Oswald actually hit the president from that awkward angle, six stories up, and using an old Italian rifle (and through foliage no less!). But as the great Kevin Costner once said, “This was a military-style ambush from start to finish… a coup d’etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings.” Not to mention the mob, the Cubans, and Tommy Lee Jones.
